For more than a century, the stone chapel at Grove Cemetery in Kenton has been a central icon. But today it is a storage building and the price tag for repairing the aged chapel has exceeded its worth, the board of trustees has determined. As they look for ways to remove it, the board members are seeking someone who can keep the stained glass windows and concrete gargoyles away from the wrecking ball.

Kenton’s Reed Cook pushes upfield past a Bellefontaine defender in the Wildcats’ season-opening match against the Chieftains at home on Friday night. Results for the match were unavailable by presstime.

ADA — The congregation of the New Birth Living Word Ministries has seen many changes in recent years, but it has a home now and its leaders believe God was with them every step of the journey. The church was founded in Alger by Wayne Vaughn. The Kenton resident had found a vacant church building in the village and made arrangements for his new church to be housed there. After much remodeling, the congregation grew. But after six years, a disagreement with the owner of the church forced Pastor Vaughn and his followers to seek another home.

The Lynn Valley Farmers 4-H club held their annual family picnic at Wilcox Woods Sunday, Aug. 11. Pictured are members of the club with two wheelbarrows they purchased. The wheel-barrows will be donated to the Hardin County Fair.

The process of pollination has evolved over millions of years to benefit both flowering plants and pollinators. These pollinators are bees, wasps, butterflies, moths, flies, beetles, animals such as deer and bats and wind and water. When pollinators visit flowers, pollen rubs off or drops onto their bodies. The pollen is transferred to another plant blossom which starts the process of seed or fruit production.

ADA — Patrolman Penny Clark must have been thinking about the remodeling project in the Ada Police Department when she fell asleep one night recently because she recalls suddenly waking up with an idea involving the renovated office.

Kellogg Farms received the top conservation awards at the Annual Meeting of the Hardin Soil and Water Conservation District on Thursday evening in Kenton.

The Trophy Bassmasters traveled back to Lake Erie for their seventh outing of the year recently.

Kenton native Cydney Davis will be performing with Marilyn McCoo and Billy Davis Jr. at a concert Saturday night at Lakeside. Cydney grew up in Kenton and graduated from Kenton High School. She started singing at a young age and sang her first solo at Payne Chapel AME Church at age 12. She acknowledges her church mentors Sara and Roger Brown and Alma Whetzel who helped developed her confidence in singing and also her high school music teacher, James "JD" Smith for inspiring her to pursue her talents.

The Plaza Inn, Mt. Victory was the setting for KHS class of 1953’s annual reunion. Classmates registered as they arrived, updated addresses, email addresses, and telephone numbers. There were 21classmates plus several guests present to enjoy lunch and discuss classroom memories, and updating others about present day life. A class photo was taken by a guest of a classmate.